I generally don’t like console FPS games, but this was pretty fun. This was the debut of DICE’s Frostbite engine, which offers impressive destructible terrain. It makes for some interesting battle dynamics, and effectively imparts the pants-shitting fear of sitting in a building that’s getting shelled, and seeing the walls just fall down around you.
Released in 2008 only on PS3/X360 (no PC version) , the graphics are obviously dated now, and it suffers from that era of muddy textures where everything is grayish brown and foggy. The gamepad controls are also unusual and took some getting used to.
The single-player campaign is short, but it’s a hoot. You play in a 4-man squad with Sarge Redford, Haggard, and Sweetwater, and although they’re all stock characters (particularly Haggard), the dialogue is consistently funny. It’s not your typical war game, as you end up accidentally invading a neutral nation, decide to go AWOL in pursuit of a huge cache of gold held by a mercenary army, then forced by the US Gov to keep going as an unofficial operation.
Released in 2008 only on PS3/X360 (no PC version) , the graphics are obviously dated now, and it suffers from that era of muddy textures where everything is grayish brown and foggy. The gamepad controls are also unusual and took some getting used to.
The single-player campaign is short, but it’s a hoot. You play in a 4-man squad with Sarge Redford, Haggard, and Sweetwater, and although they’re all stock characters (particularly Haggard), the dialogue is consistently funny. It’s not your typical war game, as you end up accidentally invading a neutral nation, decide to go AWOL in pursuit of a huge cache of gold held by a mercenary army, then forced by the US Gov to keep going as an unofficial operation.